How Reddit reinvented the walrus

A walrus isn’t a walrus anymore—it’s a “word bank” now. Blame this 5-year-old.

Naturally, moms and dads are proud of the work their children do at school. They could post it on the fridge, but any modern parents worth their salt will instead post it on Reddit.

Over on r/funny, redditor gynoceros posted a picture of a worksheet his 5-year-old son completed at school, made up of pictures of Arctic animals and a choice of words to put next to them in a word bank at the bottom. The kid labeled most correctly, but at the bottom of the sheet, he called a seal a walrus. (Rookie mistake.) His name for the actual walrus? “Word bank.”

Reddit, of course, sided with the 5-year-old, blaming the teacher, who had clearly “never seen the elusive word bank in its natural habitat.” Then the memes began to appear: